"One night in February 1899 the Filipino
insurrection started and lasted for nearly three years. The 14th,
with a strength of 16 officers and 707 men took its part in the opening
skirmishes. It assisted in the capture of Block House No. 14 on Feb.
5, 1899. Most of the fighting that followed was similar to that
which the personnel had engaged in during the Indian wars in the 1880s and
90s.
Tropic heat, torrential rain, deep mud and jungle fever were the allies of
the insurrectionist with his bob. Actual battles were rare and
except for the major engagements at Manila, Laguna de Bay, Zapote, and
Cavite, minor skirmishes, ambushes, long marches and reconnaissances
occupied the Fourteenth Infantry of 1899."